I have been scratching my head over this and thought someone here can
help me out:
I have a number of data points that I want to plot in a 2 or 3d space
based on pairwise distances. I do have the distances, but frankly no
idea of how to do the mapping/plotting.
I am not necessarily looking for a complete solution - but would be
grateful if someone could point me in the right direction (tutorials or
which methods to use in ruby..)
I am just examining RubyDCL (ruby-dcl-1.5.3). May be you will find
something useful there.
Prasad
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On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Marc Hoeppner <marc.hoeppner@molbio.su.se> wrote:
Hi!
I have been scratching my head over this and thought someone here can
help me out:
I have a number of data points that I want to plot in a 2 or 3d space
based on pairwise distances. I do have the distances, but frankly no
idea of how to do the mapping/plotting.
I am not necessarily looking for a complete solution - but would be
grateful if someone could point me in the right direction (tutorials or
which methods to use in ruby..)
Datum: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 01:23:08 +0900
Von: "G.Durga Prasad" <gdprasad@gmail.com>
An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Betreff: Re: How to draw a distance map with Ruby
> Hi!
>
> I have been scratching my head over this and thought someone here can
> help me out:
>
> I have a number of data points that I want to plot in a 2 or 3d space
> based on pairwise distances. I do have the distances, but frankly no
> idea of how to do the mapping/plotting.
>
> I am not necessarily looking for a complete solution - but would be
> grateful if someone could point me in the right direction (tutorials or
> which methods to use in ruby..)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/\.
>
>
I am just examining RubyDCL (ruby-dcl-1.5.3). May be you will find
something useful there.
There is some care taken of the distance in the second example module_graph.jpg,
not yet what you asked for, but there's a description language, 'dot', associated to the
project, which might be tweakable into what you asked for.
Best regards,
Axel
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On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Marc Hoeppner > <marc.hoeppner@molbio.su.se> wrote:
I wonder if I stop using perl and start using Ruby.
1-Can ruby programs create Guis much like C# and VB.NET?
2-Can ruby programs be turned into .exe files if needed?
3-Does Ruby support regexp like Perl does?
4-If Ruby as good as perl is when processing text?
5-Does ruby have anything like associative arrays?
Feedback needed
Joe
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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 07:20:34 +0900
From: AEtzold@gmx.de
Subject: Re: How to draw a distance map with Ruby
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 01:23:08 +0900
> Von: "G.Durga Prasad" <gdprasad@gmail.com>
> An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Betreff: Re: How to draw a distance map with Ruby
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Marc Hoeppner > > <marc.hoeppner@molbio.su.se> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have been scratching my head over this and thought someone here can
> > help me out:
> >
> > I have a number of data points that I want to plot in a 2 or 3d space
> > based on pairwise distances. I do have the distances, but frankly no
> > idea of how to do the mapping/plotting.
> >
> > I am not necessarily looking for a complete solution - but would be
> > grateful if someone could point me in the right direction (tutorials or
> > which methods to use in ruby..)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Marc
> > --
> > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/\.
> >
> >
>
> I am just examining RubyDCL (ruby-dcl-1.5.3). May be you will find
> something useful there.
>
> Prasad
There is some care taken of the distance in the second example module_graph.jpg,
not yet what you asked for, but there's a description language, 'dot', associated to the
project, which might be tweakable into what you asked for.
I wonder if I stop using perl and start using Ruby.
1-Can ruby programs create Guis much like C# and VB.NET?
That's a vague question, but the answer: probably not the same kind of
GUI API you're thinking of.
2-Can ruby programs be turned into .exe files if needed?
Yes. But that's Windows, so your question misses a large user base.
3-Does Ruby support regexp like Perl does?
I'm going to go with Yes on this one. There are differences between
releases, though (look behind capabilities, etc.)
4-If Ruby as good as perl is when processing text?
Depends on the programmer.
5-Does ruby have anything like associative arrays?
This last question will have many ruby programmers silently biting
their teeth. You may not have done your homework. For Giggles and
Sits...
h = {}
Feedback needed
Joe
A bunch of articles that spear, roast, and slice these questions --
complete with gravy -- frequent a simple google search. Funny, I
didn't think I would ever say that.
hth,
Todd
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On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:54 PM, joseph collins <joec_49@hotmail.com> wrote:
I wonder if I should stop using perl and start using Ruby. I need inputfrom the Ruby programmers:1-Can ruby programs create Guis much like C# and VB.NET?2-Can ruby programs be turned into .exe files if needed?3-Does Ruby support regexp like Perl does?4-If Ruby as good as perl is when processing text?5-Does ruby have anything like associative arrays? Feedback needed - thanks! Joe
Datum: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 07:54:57 +0900
Von: joseph collins <joec_49@hotmail.com>
An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Betreff: Re: How to draw a distance map with Ruby
I wonder if I stop using perl and start using Ruby.
1-Can ruby programs create Guis much like C# and VB.NET?
2-Can ruby programs be turned into .exe files if needed?
3-Does Ruby support regexp like Perl does?
4-If Ruby as good as perl is when processing text?
5-Does ruby have anything like associative arrays?
Feedback needed
Joe
Joe,
when posting to this list, please don't hijack other people's threads...
I wonder if I should stop using perl and start using Ruby. I need inputfrom the Ruby programmers:
1-Can ruby programs create Guis much like C# and VB.NET?
Yes. I suggest using JRuby + Monkeybars for maximum power + most ease of use.
But there's also Fx, Tk, a few other options.
2-Can ruby programs be turned into .exe files if needed?
Um, depends on what you mean.
There is rubyscript2exe that bundles up your code + a Ruby interpreter in a self-executing file, and using JRuby + the rawr lib you can easily create distributable executable files for distribution, but these are not actually turning Ruby code into native code.
3-Does Ruby support regexp like Perl does?
Yes, though not exactly as Perl does. Some small syntax variance.
4-If Ruby as good as perl is when processing text?
I think so. Don't see why not, but I haven't used perl in 4 years.
5-Does ruby have anything like associative arrays?
yes. We call them hashes.
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--
James Britt
"I can see them saying something like 'OMG Three Wizards Awesome'"
- billinboston, on reddit.com
Just out of curiosity, are you at Microsoft? There's something called IronRuby from Microsoft that runs Ruby on the CLR -- it might be just what you're looking for. As far as I know, there's no "IronPerl", although there is an IronPython, to throw another language into the mix.
More or less. The Perl convention of having empty string and 0 mean
false and the automatic conversion between numbers and strings
sometimes makes text processing in Perl a bit more convenient; on the
other hand, the convention in Ruby makes most other things more
convenient.
Eivind.
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On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:49 AM, joseph collins <joec_49@hotmail.com> wrote:
4-If Ruby as good as perl is when processing text?
Not stopping perl is ok; not starting Ruby might be a missed
opportunity though, well of course only you can decide about your
available time.
<skip>
Cheers
Robert
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On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:33 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
joseph collins wrote:
I wonder if I should stop using perl and start using Ruby.
Probably not. Perl has certain advantages, not the least of which is the
fact that you know it.
Thanks - that is what I wanted to hear....I have used perl heavily and it has served me well.
I will look further into Ruby.
Joe
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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:10:16 +0900
From: james.britt@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Ruby or Perl?
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
joseph collins wrote:
> I wonder if I should stop using perl and start using Ruby. I need input from the Ruby programmers:
1-Can ruby programs create Guis much like C# and VB.NET?
Yes. I suggest using JRuby + Monkeybars for maximum power + most ease of use.
But there's also Fx, Tk, a few other options.
2-Can ruby programs be turned into .exe files if needed?
Um, depends on what you mean.
There is rubyscript2exe that bundles up your code + a Ruby interpreter
in a self-executing file, and using JRuby + the rawr lib you can easily
create distributable executable files for distribution, but these are
not actually turning Ruby code into native code.
3-Does Ruby support regexp like Perl does?
Yes, though not exactly as Perl does. Some small syntax variance.
4-If Ruby as good as perl is when processing text?
I think so. Don't see why not, but I haven't used perl in 4 years.
5-Does ruby have anything like associative arrays?
yes. We call them hashes.
--
James Britt
"I can see them saying something like 'OMG Three Wizards Awesome'"
- billinboston, on reddit.com
